Week 4 Spelling Words

Here are this week's spelling words! We are doing the 'ea' spelling pattern for long e.

Group 1 Mrs Nuthall Long e	Group 2 Mrs Woolford, Miss Cullinane,Ms Kelly Long e	Group 3 Stage 6 Miss Mac Long e	Group 4 Stage 7 Miss Mac Long e	Group 5 Stage 7+ Miss Mac Long e
ea	ea	ea	ea	ea
leaf beans clear cream clean easy mean reach please speak	eagle ideal squeak scream steamed teacher weaker heated least beanstalk	dealer peaceful neatest least season beaches unreal cheapest leading easterly	dreamily neatest reason teaching screamed meaning cheapest cleanest speaking easier	eastern reaching meaningful realism reasoning appealing crease eagerly beagle preacher

T23 Argentina's World Cup Video

Thanks to our media, Jayden, Anastasia, Murphy and Blake for taking some great photos and videos. Their media release will be on the blog this week.

Lexia Upgrade

You may have noticed Lexia hasn't been working correctly - this has now been fixed. Please use the link under 'Useful Websites' to access Lexia. You may be asked to put in your teacher's email address - this is to prove you belong to Halswell School. Once you've done that, you'll be able to log in as you usually do. You will need to do this on the iPads too.

Passwords are now case sensitive - that means, if your username or password was given to you with a capital letter in it, you now you have to write it with the capital letter. Any problems, please see your T group teacher or Mrs W.

Week 3 Spelling Words

Here are your spelling words for the week! We are looking at the long e sound!

Group 1 Mrs Nuthall Long e	Group 2 Mrs Woolford, Miss Cullinane,Ms Kelly Long e	Group 3 Stage 6 Miss Mac Long e	Group 4 Stage 7 Miss Mac Long e	Group 5 Stage 7+ Miss Mac Long e
ee	ee	ee, e-e	ee, e-e	ee, e-e
tree seed breeze three sheep queen peel cheek sweet seen	speech coffee agree screech bleed freeze steel street between thirteen	complete revoke these concrete wheelbarrow compete peeled windscreen fifteen sixteen	completed Jamboree discretely speedometer sheepishly eighteen evergreen engineer screenplay proceeding	athlete sightseeing persevere guarantee severe Japanese obsolete adhere spreadsheet disagreement

Well done Tonga!

Very proud of both teams who played in our final on Friday for our rugby World Cup tournament. We have some very strong players in Orongomai. Was great to see all children get involved in some way, what a fun week we had! 

Week Two Spelling Words

Wow! The first week has just raced by. Here are the spelling words for Week 2. We are back into our word study/phonics groups so check that you are using the words for the right group. It's our last look at the long a vowel sound, but boy! Are some of those spelling patterns tricky! Good luck, team!

Group 1 Mrs Nuthall (long a)	Group 2 Mrs Woolford, Miss Cullinane,Ms Kelly (long a)	Group 3 Stage 6 Miss Mac (long a)	Group 4 Stage 7 Miss Mac (long a)	Group 5 Stage 7+ Miss Mac (long a)
a	a	a /eigh/aigh	a /ei/eigh/aigh	a/ei/eigh/aigh/et/au
apron lady baby able cable lazy crazy paper waste radio	April ladies babies stable laser pastry alien potato papers taste	famous danger stranger strangest nature eight eighteen neigh weigh straight	dangerous evaporate strangely pastries vein veil sleigh neighbour freight straighten	patience association palatial skeins heavyweight neighbourhood straightforward croquet crochet gauge